Fall wedding
by Magnumphotography

Comment:
Love this shot with the light behind the bride and coming through the autumn leaves. Very soft and romantic, nice change from the more usual summer wedding.

so real you can almost touch it
by Lutchenko

Comment:
Hmmm with that flower pic on the screen I had a real *tough* time trying to guess whose entry it was! Good work and congrats on the red!

User Name "Vogue"
by kingskingdom

Comment:
model's makeup far too heavy, lips vanish into face, pose more come-hither than fashionable.

...Flopped Wrestler...
by Okan_YILMAZ

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Initial impression: I think this photo is severely underrated. But it happens to us all. My advice: keep shooting and shoot to please yourself, not the voters.

Technical: I have that lens too and love it. The lighting is ambient and you captured it just perfectly for the situation; the leading lines on the ground lead to the wrestler and his defeated posture.

Artistic: I think you caught a very complex story here and we are just seeing the end of it. The wrestler does look beat and weary, perhaps a bit ashamed as he seems to be hiding his head in his arms. That nicely blurred water does look cold, and the simple starkness of the scene probably threw many voters.

Overall: DPC loves to see faces and eyes to help drill home emotion, that's probably why you didn't as well as you might have. I would've given this shot a 6 or 7 in voting.

FWIW: I will give you the same advice I have given others and give myself: Keep shooting, and shoot to pleasde yourself, not the voters. If you skew your style to suit dpc, you will probably not feel comfortable with your shot though it may socre high. However, if you can shoot what you want, and it happens to also please the voters, you could do very well here.

Keep up the good work!

Feel free to PM me with any questions.

Susan

The Second Coming of Gozer
by adamslight

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

And a fellow Ottawan as it so happens, I grew up in our fine town :-) Now onto the critique.

Initial impression: LOVE the creativity and thought that went into this. Gozer fits in perfectly with scale of buildings around him. Would be too easy for him to overwhelm set completely or vanish in it.

Technical: Excellent lighting, composition very good, great shot for this challenge. I would have expected a higher finish but dpc voters can be very capricious. Again, the scale of the set works beautifully for you.

Artistic: Some may say the idea is plagiarized from the movie, but with this set you could have easily put in Godzilla or a giant woody (a la [user]ArtRoflmao[/user]and it still would've been a great concept and shot. Love the oof plane, adds interest and excitement to the shot. Without it, this could have risked looking static and - horrors! - uninteresting.

Overall: Damn wish I'd come up with this. And that's a good thing. Had I voted this would have been an 8 or 9, easy.

Feel free to PM me with any questions,

Susan

Looking up, looking down!!
by notaniceguytoknow

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Initial impression: clever and unusual pov for the shot.

Technical: dof good, composition good but could've been strengthened by cropping out the other fish in upper left.

Artistic: LOVE the different pov you got here on the fish. The green water surrounding it catches the light well and helps illuminate subject.

Overall: A good shot, but can see why it finished just below 50%. Even though you wouldn't have been able to clone out other fish in Basic editing, could've cropped it so fishing line would help form a leading line up to left corner. Better to have just one strong subject in a shot than try to include a second one that may detract.

FWIW: A tiny hit of unsharp mask and sharpen edges, following resizing, may help your subject pop a little more. If you have these editing tools, try them out and see.

Feel free to PM me any questions,

Susan

"Back" Cover Girl
by DougPaz

Comment:
LOL love the cover subjects esp Sex Moves! Woohoo! :-0

Vertigo
by vlado

Comment:
Wow I love shots that make me dizzy! Huge congrats on the ribbon!

Another part of me
by Rino63

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Initial impression: This shot's underlying sadness and poignancy surprises me. I used to have several friends in the drag community and yes, many of them did indeed feel lost without a drag/cross-dressing persona to complete them.

Technical: Composition interesting, lighting good, no glare or harsh shadows. Might have liked to see a little bit of light bounced up into the side of your made-up face to emphasize the difference. I personally like the slightly oof reflection, but dpc leans toward tack-sharp focus.

Artistic: At the risk of sounding corny, very reflective. Would have been too easy to make direct eye contact with your reflection. The 3/4 profile visible in mirror adds interest. Good contrast between the macho cowboy look and the made-up drag queen. And I like the flower on the mirror, it's a feminine icon and helps draw attention up to the female side.

Overall: As I said before, I sense a melancholiness here, and that coupled with the makeup probably made more conservative voters uneasy and hence cast lower votes. This community does favour the very obvious.

FWIW: Should you choose to do cross-dressing again, don't stint on the makeup! Drag queens do it to get noticed, so they go all out and slap on the rouge, bright lips, eyeshadow etc.

Feel free to pm me with any questions,

Susan

Wonder if you'll ever see the sun
by RulerZigzag

Comment:
Greetings from the Critique Club!

Initial impression: Not familiar with the song itself, but the sunset shot says enough. Hard to get a fix on it in terms of place, doesn't look like a big-city skyline.

Technical: Good use of ambient light, a little glare from sun, use of thirds good with the low horizon. Like the underlit cloud on the right.

Artistic: I like the boats' silhouettes on the water, help add interest and depth to the shot.

Overall: Would have liked to see this with a slightly faster aperture, like 1/40 or 1/50.

Feel free to pm me with any questions,

Susan